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[Louis Foxwell]

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

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[The_Media_never_lie]

As Aesop knew some 2500 years ago; The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. Virtually every civilized country affected by Muslim terror, has responded by trying to make life better for Muslims. But no matter how much they warm the snake, it still bites. The snake will always bite.

This was well known 2500 years ago, but has since apparently been forgotten by many.

I remember after 9-11, the muslims who condemned the murders with the qualifiers which addressed the grievances which they say led to the attacks. NO UNCONDITIONAL CONDEMNATION OF THE MURDERS came from the muslim world. Also, 85 per cent of more of the muslim world was cheering the murders! That told me all I needed to learn about islam!

[rlmorel]

I prefer:

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion
says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”

Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature...”

I prefer this for two reasons: First, it highlights the Lucy Van Pelt/Charlie Brown football kicking that conservatives engage in, whereas the frog recognizes the danger immediately, but refuses to believe the scorpion will engage in stinging simply because it says logically that it won’t.

Secondly, the scorpion (Liberal) fully acknowledges its nature, and the frog (Conservative) feels that the scorpion will change its nature because it is in the best interests of everyone (including the scorpion’s) to do so.

In the end, the scorpion follows its nature. This is far more in line with what we see from liberals, and from terrorists. From this, we can envision a two sided coin, one side says: “It is in the nature of some people to be evil, society did not make them that way” and the flip side of the coin should say “Some people just need killing”.

That is a coin that should be carried around in the pocket.

That said, I did appreciate the piece...very well written.

[rlmorel]

The last paragraph of his article is the money:

That is the problem of the farmer who believes that inside he is really a snake, and the snake who believes he is really a farmer. For if there is no difference between good and evil, but that those who do good have had good done to them, and those who do evil, have had evil done to them-- then we can welcome in the snakes and all will be well because we are all snakes inside. And it is only by warming snakes, that we change that. This in essence is the worldview of liberalism. This is the key to much of its madness. And so they pick up the snake, and are bitten and die, wondering why their worldview which seemed so right, proved to be so wrong. And we die with them. For the farmer has carried the snake home, made a nest for it, and filled his home and the homes of his neighbors with snakes. And it may be hard to know where the farmer began and where the snake ended."

Just brilliant.

[Tucker39]

Ping, please.

[cpdiii]

For those that did not read all of Greenfield’s long article the synopsis is below.

Many of the Muslims want to kill and or subjugate us.
They will not change regardless of what we do to placate them.They want to kill us.

[GOPJ]

... the very idea that good will be repaid with good and evil with evil has something else lurking in it as we've already seen. The farmer's logic can be read both ways, the naive man who genuinely expects that only good can come of doing good until he dies of that sort of thinking, or the evil man who believes that he is safe from the snake because the evil within him and the snake makes them both victims. For the farmer to act as he does, he must believe that the snake is not evil, and such a belief is the province of the very naive or the very evil.

Liz - thought you might enjoy this one...

[rexiesmom]

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